It is necessary to undertake an urgent and comprehensive review of the question, with the involvement of the People's Commissariat of Finance and the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions in the discussion. It is necessary by all means to find such a solution to all questions as would ensure the normal functioning of the Donbas and place it beyond dependence on the continuing fall of the ruble exchange rate.

I consider this a matter of exceptional urgency and request that Gosplan concentrate specifically on this work.[^506]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written November 6, 1922

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the typescript signed

by V. I. Lenin

[^506]: Reference note number as in original text.